Why work affects our health? The TRUTH about health inequality
Your job might have a say in how long you'll live.
That's what Michael Marmot, a scientist from England, discovered while studying government workers in London's Whitehall area, in what is now known as the Whitehall studies.
Dr. Marmot and his team spent ten years collecting information and looking into why some people get heart diseases more than others, and he found
that people with lower work levels, lived less than people with higher levels.
Sources:
Whitehall study: The changing social class distribution of heart disease
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Whitehall study II
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Cohort profile the Whitehall study II
https://academic.oup.com/ije/article/...
Socioeconomic position and mortality risk of smoking: evidence from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Retirement
https://www.bmj.com/content/313/7066/...
Retirement and Socioeconomic Differences in Diurnal Cortisol: Longitudinal Evidence From a Cohort of British Civil Servants
https://academic.oup.com/psychsocgero...
Book: The Status Syndrome